Hi,

I was running Red Hat 9 until I recently installed Fedora Core 6. I have a project and within the makefile is the target "depend" which causes the program mkdep to be called. Now that I've installed FC6, mkdep is not there. I've searched for RPMs and the best match I've found is pmake-1.45-16 RPM for i386 from Fedora Core 3 for i386.

Is it a good idea to install the entire make facility from an older distribution?

Is there another tool for automatically creating a dependancy list I should know about?

TIA,

Lost Johnny

is it possible to import all the code into another IDE (I think Bloodshed DEV-C++ will work) and have the program regenerate a Makefile for you?

Well, thanks for this - it's a thought. I'm really hoping for a less sledge-hammer-y solution - i.e. finding a way of installing mkdep that isn't part of a whole package that might not be compatible with the rest of my system (I've so far only found mkdep as part of pmake - for FC3), seeing as all the problem is at the moment is the absence of mkdep.

I know I should probably be looking at using an IDE anyway for productivity. But I'd really like to avoid the upheaval for now even if it is just a small amount (which it might not be).

Thanks again,

Lost Johnny

UPDATE:

I found mkdep in source form here:
http://www.linuxhq.com/kernel/v2.5/21/scripts/mkdep.c

I've compiled it, put it in /usr/bin, but when I run 'make depend' I get the following error:

mkdep: HPATH not set in environment. Don't bypass the top level Makefile.

Anyone any idea what's going on? Is that mkdep I downloaded specifically for use with the make system that recompiles the kernel?

Lost Johnny

environment variables can be see and altered using the export function

try running "export" to see if HPATH is set. If not export HPATH=/where/it/should/point/to

as far as where it should point to, i really don't know, I'm a complete n00b at C/C++

To answer my own question as to whether that mkdep is specifically for building the kernel, I think it is. I know HPATH isn't set in my shell - it's probably supposed to be set by make (or some called program or script) when building the kernel.

To answer another of my own questions from my original post, I've now found makedepend. I remember I couldn't use this last time I tried it under Red Hat 9. I can't remember why not - it was many moons ago. In the present day and having installed FC6 I find that I have this program and I've changed my makefile to use it. It seems to work. Hmm. Maybe I'll find out later on why I wasn't using it before.

For now, though, case closed.

Lost Johnny